Rebuilding university education and the West | Professor Patrick Gray

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Addressing the Institute of Public Affairs’ 2025 Annual Dinner, Professor Patrick Gray spoke of the need to rebuild university education to preserve the freedoms and intellectual legacy of the West.

Professor Patrick Gray is UATX’s Dean of the Center for Arts and Letters. Previously, Professor Gray served as Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University, where he was responsible for designing and introducing a new interdisciplinary core curriculum in the humanities.

Professor Gray has also taught comparative literature at Deep Springs College and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He authored, Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic, editor of Shakespeare and the Ethics of War, and co-editor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics and Shakespeare and Montaigne.

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